Method of making culinary stock.



5 per to reduce the meat, to

meat of the bivalve is Patented February 2&3, 1905.

\VILLIAM ll. KERR, OF MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS.

METMQD OF MAKlNG CULINARY sToeK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 783.840, dated February 28, 1905. Applicatilm fil June 3,1904. Serial No. 211,048.

5 State of lllassachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Method of Making Culinary Stock, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description.

The invention relates to the manufacture of is food products; and its object is to provide a new and improved method of making culinary stock, which culinary stock can'be readily converted by the consumer into an easily-digested, nourishing, and palatable stew having 5 the flavor of malted oysters, clams, and like bivalves.

The method consists, essentially, in macerating the meat of oysters, clams, or other bivalves by the digestive process, adding malt 20 to the mass, boiling the mixture, and linally concentrating and drying it.

In detail l proceed follows: One hundred 'pounds of the meat of oysters, clams, or other bivalves are first passed through a meat-chopwhich is now added about twenty-live pounds of water and the mass is warmed to, say, 80 Fahrenheit. To the heated mass is added one-half ounce of papain and one-half ounce pepsin dissolved in 3 two pounds of water, and the resultant mixture is then thoroughly agitated or stirred, say, for about ten minutes, after which the mixture is boiled, preferably by the use of live steam, for one-half hour, so that the original thoroughly macerated and predigested by the digestive process de ,scribed, the action of the proteolitic ferments (papain and pepsin) being well known, so that further description thereof is not deemed 4 necessary. To the macerated and predigested meat is now added ten pounds of dry coarse malt, and this mixture is now boiled for, say, forty minutes and then the resultant mass is strained and concentrated in a vacuum-pan litted with a mechanical stirrer until the mass The mass is concentrated, preferably over a is of a molasses consistence. then turther water-bath, until the mass becomes lumpy and suliiciently dry to allow of coarsely grinding after which live pounds ofmalted milk is added and the product for commercial reasons is then ground into a line powder, whichlorms the culinary stock. r

In order to prepare from this culinary stock a stew, the consumer takes, say, a teaspooniul of the stock and places it into a cup or other suitable vessel, then lills the cup with hot water and stirs the contents in the cup for a short time to form a stew which is exceedingly nourishing and easily digestible and palatable and having the flavor of malted oysters, clams, or other bivalves, according to the bivalve meat originally used.

The culinary stock can be readily packed in suitable boxes or other containers and shipped to the consumers and while packed and kept air-tight is not liable to spoil and can be stored for a long time before use.

Having thus described myinvention, Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl; The herein-described method for producing a culinary stock, consisting in predigesting the meat of oysters, clams or other bivalves, adding malt to the mass, boiling the resultant mixture, and concentrating and drying it.

2. The herein-described method for producing a culinary stock, consisting in macerating the meat 6f oysters, clams or other bivalves, pred igestin g the macerated meat, adding malt to the mass, boiling, concentrating and drying it, adding malted milk, and finally grinding the dry product to powder form.

3. The herein -described method for producing a culinary stock, consisting in reducing the meat of oysters, clams or other bivalves, predigesting the reduced meat, then adding malt to the mass, boiling, concentrating and drying the mass to a-molasses consistency, then again concentrating the mass to a lumpy condition, and then coarsely grinding the mass and drying it.

4:. The he sin-described method for producing a culinary stock, consisting in reducing the 2 V memov In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification 1n the presence of two sub- IO SCIlblflg witnesses.

WILLIAM B. KERR.

. Witnesses: ANDREW KERR, CLOUGH H. KERR. 

